How, why and where will tree species survive increasing pressure? Providing diagnosis and decision-making tools to attenuate the effect of global change on biodiversity in the Congo Basin forests

CoForChange

Principal Investigator:

Sylvie Gourlet-Fleury, CIRAD, Montpellier, France

Project Partners:

ca. 20 European and African research groups

CoforChange Work Package 5: Characterise drought tolerance, light requirements and associated functional traits of tree species

Principal investigators:

Bettina Engelbrecht, Mike Swaine

Coworkers:

Sabrina Coste

The project is carried out in collaboration with a consortium of European and African organizations and funded by Era-Net Biodiversa: ERA-net project within the European Union´s 6th framework programme for research.